Ars TechnicaX (née Twitter) wants to collect your biometric data and employment history
X to collect more user data as Musk teases plan to offer video and audio calls.
smy20011@arstechnica Yeah...no
Dave Heidt@arstechnica social credit system?
Moody Loner@arstechnica oh HELL no
baqir@arstechnica nice, can't wait for them to get hacked and we get a surge of identity theft cases.
Marty@baqir @arstechnica Except it's a bunch of people who are so awful, nobody else wants to assume their identities.
Brennan Stehling@arstechnica In 2023 the most critical priority of a social media platform is to not break trust with the users. Both Meta and X have done this repeatedly. Meanwhile LinkedIn is going strong and has shown that it can be trusted with employment history and private messaging.
DJW@brennansv @arstechnica It’s painful for me to agree with you, because I eschew LI to the extent possible. But on a relative basis, I don’t disagree.
@wurzbacher It is offered as a set of tools to stay in touch with your colleagues and to assist in your career. It has been doing this solid for many years without breaking trust. It does help that they have premium features so they are not dependent on exploiting personal information to monetize with advertisers. Any new platform needs to work out a business model that can be trusted.
R@arstechnica Your Mastodon operator is using advanced vocabulary. 🥇I learned a new word.
SpicewallaThis guy's ultimate dream is to build the torment nexus.
tony@arstechnica this nonsense is why im here now Its mainly they lack of trust. I dont expect companies to give me free content, but tell us why you want these huge privacy holes!
Relatedly i reopened by ten years dormant insta account, because i trust facebook to sell me out in a predictable way. Evil predictable is so much nicer than chaotic evil.
Thorium@arstechnica Good luck with that, space Karen.
Ted Spence@arstechnica why yes I have always wanted yet another app that people can call me on where I’ll get ten advertisement notifications for each one real notification sign me right up
Ryan2one3@arstechnica lol sure thing.
kkeller@arstechnica I would rather eat my own eyeballs than give Twitter any of that data.
random thoughts@arstechnica ... and people are stupid enough to give him this data?
Humanity is a lost cause.
cowboybanjobiker 🤠🪕🚴@arstechnica Just say "no"
@arstechnica There’s a CRA that tracks this data, it’s an Experian subsidiary IIRC.
Their data is by and large hot garbage, and goes back far longer than the expected 7 or so years.
If the folks who are supposedly able to protect our data (ha!) and have some semblance of governance screw it up, Elmo will be even worse.
bubbajet@arstechnica I feel like I’m watching Kingsman.
Move forward or die!@arstechnica the scariest part is that there are likely a large number of people who are dumb enough to fall for this ploy… actually almost as scary as the cult of T.